The Bidens don’t gamble. That was the message from Hunter Biden in new emails released this week. As Hunter explained in an email to Devon Archer (who supplied damaging evidence this week to the House on the Biden influence peddling efforts): “I dont believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman.”
The “Super” is Che Feng, a Chinese businessman with close ties to the Chinese government and someone under criminal investigation for corruption. Lotteries are for suckers. Influence peddling, however, was a sure thing for the Bidens.
For Hunter Biden, the “Super” was Mega Millions and Powerball combined. Hunter explained that once they were made “owners of a CIC super chairman backed fund I think the sky’s the limit.”
In his interview with congressional investigators on Monday, Archer explained that President Biden called in on dinners and meetings almost two dozens times and was essential to selling “the brand.” The brand was insider peddling and Joe Biden was the object of that influence. The calls showed that he was always a phone call away to friends of his son.
The “brand” had only one product: Joe Biden. Indeed, in the new emails Hunter virtually reduced them to eye candy for the “Super.” He told Archer (who is a former Abercrombie & Fitch model) that the “Super’ loved him for his “last name” and for always traveling with “handsome godlike Aryan men.”
In responding to the new evidence by Archer, Rep. Dan Goldman (D., N.Y.) appeared close to hyperventilation in demanding that all investigations stop immediately. Goldman has been widely mocked for his spin on the calls of Joe Biden just being a dad and chatting with his son’s friends. It was apparently more of a slumber party and the old man was just exchanging “niceties.”
The demand to end any further investigation is becoming not only more hysterical from many Democrats, but more insulting for voters. Polls show that citizens recognize this for what it is: corruption.
A few things now appear established for most of us. First, Hunter Biden (and his uncle) were openly selling influence and access to Joe Biden. The calls were designed to prove their deliverables of Joe Biden. Second, the Bidens received millions from foreign sources through an intentionally complex series of banks and accounts. Money does not have to go directly to Joe Biden to benefit him and his family. Third, these foreign figures clearly believed that they were buying access. Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky reportedly said that Hunter “was stupid, and his dog was smarter.” Hunter may have lacked the numbers on IQ but he had Joe Biden on speed dial and Joe Biden was controlling federal aid to Ukraine.
Zlochevsky’s dog may have been smarter but he never retrieved millions in influence peddling.
This brings us back to Hunter’s lottery calculation and why he shifted from Powerball to influence peddling.
A Powerball lottery ticket costs only $2 a play but the odds of winning are 1 in 292.2 million. Selling access to his father was a guaranteed winner and appears to have netted at least $10 million. That figure is now growing.
There was an added benefit for the Bidens over playing the lottery. IRS whistleblowers allege that Hunter Biden claimed some windfall payments as loans to avoid paying taxes and emails suggest that Joe Biden was slated to receive in-kind benefits like free office space.
In the end, the lottery email may capture the mindset of Hunter and his friend Devon. Lotteries are viewed as get-rich windfalls that do not require any work or skills. Hunter naturally compared lotteries to influence peddling as similar in that respect. Both involved windfalls without any need to earn the money.
After all, Adam Smith noted that “adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.” However, influence peddling as a Biden is a certainty, it is money in the bank. The only numbers needed in the Peddling Powerball to win the jackpot are the ten digits of your Dad’s cellphone.
insults with no data or analysis. no one pays attention to that anymore
We cannot forget the encrypted phone supplied to BG from Hunters “business’! Need the secret weather report updates “STAT!!!!”
Commentary on ‘Turley patron Donald Trump’ is reaching superceding-indictments of epic proportions. Borders on a ‘impeachment inquiry’, and Trump is not even president. Turley couldn’t get a word in edgewise, even if he wanted to. It’s all they talk about. It’s been done to death.
*also, there’s a bit more difference between Truley and ‘ladies of the evening’ than moral standards. .. iykwim.
Right…..
Correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t the China stuff happen in 2017? AFTER he retired???
No
Hey “Anonymous”, care to explain how Hunter traveled on AIR FORCE II after his father was VP? Come on, try harder, you are embarrassing yourself.
You mean the stuff he said never happened?
Just shows how low we’ve fallen into the abyss. There was a time when plagiarism but a roadblock in Biden’s political career and hanky-panky blew Gary Hart’s presidential hopes out of the water. Now, influence peddling, bribery, lies, you name the corrupt behavior, don’t move the needle with the Dems. How sad.
When I look at the law and this list, I’m convinced the DOJ has all the evidence they need, from SAR’s to shell companies, to whistleblowers, to CHS’s, to emails, phone recordings, to wire transfers, to Bobulinski, to Archer, to justify seizing all the “suspected” money laundering assets through the Civil Asset Forfeiture program. McCarthy needs to open an impeachment inquiry yesterday, before Biden’s DOJ finds another “Jack Smith” to be appointed Special Counsel and block the House from further investigation. That’s assuming that is what a special counsel investigation would do.
https://assetforfeiturelaw.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Civil-Forfeiture-Examples.pdf
@OLLY
No, the SARs are not enough.
They would help identify the bank accounts that were used if you follow the money back to its source.
The problem w SARs is that anything over 10K or a pattern of structured transactions would be reported.
So if you sold your house and netted 250K USD… when that wire xfer hits your bank… a SAR is generated.
The transaction is flagged for a human review. To know if there’s any suspicious activity there would be a cursory investigation.
(e.g. Hunter’s company X gets 100K retainer from someone. Easily explained. He has international clients. )
Its the convoluted pattern of transactions that causes scrutiny if you can spot the pattern in the first place. Somewhat hidden in plain sight.
You have the tax case… where they do have Hunter dead to rights.
Then there is Hunter being an unregistered lobbyist. (This is ‘alleged’ since he hasn’t been charged as of yet)
Nothing to tie to Joe.
Now the off shore accounts.
That could tie to Joe on an issue of tax evasion, but we don’t know all the details so they could all be Hunters.
What does tie to Joe is that Hunter was peddling influence and there are now two substantiated cases. (Russian woman and Burisma)
In terms of money laundering…
Not sure.
This is where the IRS would have to get engaged. Only we know that they’ll turn a blind eye. Don’t take the whistle blowers, but also ask Lois Lerner.
-G
Thank you for the reply Ian. The 170 SAR’s would be more than enough for the average “Joe”, or the average “Hunter”, especially with the number of shell companies involved, to seize those assets under the Civil Asset forfeiture laws. But as has become abundantly clear, adding the name Biden makes them politically “special” and the agencies that would normally use the force of law to seize these assets, investigate potential crimes, indict, prosecute and convict, are now exposed as accomplices to the coverup of these money laundering, FARA violating, tax evasion schemes.
@OLLY
Uhm maybe…
Here’s the issue.
Any transaction over 10K generates a SAR. Think about how many get generated.
Lets filter out all domestic SARs and focus on only the international ones.
Still a lot of SARs.
So lets say there is an offshore account for a consulting company.
The monies go to the company. Each wire xfer over 10K is captured.
You investigate. You see the company is a management consulting company and the payments are from a foreign company.
You may investigate and see that Hunter is an officer of the company.
Nothing illegal so far. Remember at the time of these transactions… you’re not looking too closely at Hunter. So you don’t take any action on that SAR.
Hunter has multiple companies. Multiple SAR transactions. But instead of one person looking at all the SARs, they get investigated by different individuals.
Lets say 30 different companies / bank accounts… at least 20 people will see them.
Then these accounts feed into other accounts, but again… nothing unusual. So you’re hiding in plain sight.
Its not until someone says… find all of the offshore companies where Hunter Biden is an officer. Then find all of the SARS for said companies going back 5-7 years or for the life of the company. Then you start to see the pattern.
There’s more to this. Like using shady banks that have lax reporting outside of the US. (Which Hunter did have an account )
There’s the other issue of when does such investigating start to cross the line.
I mean the SARs are there and the company information is also public information. (To a point.)
Then there’s the issue of getting information from various banks and countries.
Its not a simple problem…
To your point now… they would have to be found guilty before you could seize the assets.
They could freeze the assets now… which would be very interesting….
-G
Any transaction over 10K generates a SAR. Think about how many get generated.
Ian, that’s what I used to believe as well. They are not auto-generated by a $10k transaction. The transaction may trigger an internal review and hold, but it may or may not result in a SAR. The banks will review for suspicious patterns of banking transaction and that is when they are require to file a SAR within 30 days once criminal activity is detected. ! SAR could result in asset forfeiture action. 170 SAR’s is apparently “nothing to see here, move along.”
https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/suspicious-activity-reports-explained/
Ian and OLLY,
Thank you for a very interesting and educational series of comments.
You’re welcome UpstateFarmer. I don’t have a legal background, so I’m trying to understand how these things work. I don’t see anyone talking about it anywhere. Maybe there’s a legitimate reason. If so, I’d like to know what that is.
Dear Prof Turley,
In terms of gambling probabilities, the Biden Brand had (has?) what real gamblers call ‘the nuts’. A ‘lock’, the winning hand.
*to reiterate at the risk of redundancy. .. Joe Biden is the business.
I keep wondering why the Democrat would go to the wall defending the old, corrupt, nasty and UNPOULAR Joe Biden when it would behoove them to move on to Newsome or someone else under 80 and I have come up with a possible answer. What if the Democrats AND THE MEDIA are fighting this hard because they are protecting the Light Bringer…OBAMA!
Obama is the standard bearer, remember when he deigned to visit the WH and Biden, THE PRESIDENT, looked like an outsider at his own conference. If Obama gets tarnished and has his reputation ruined it will harm the party and the “brand”.
Obama new about it all, Obama probably gained from it all and Obama is fighting behind the scenes to bury the story.
@Hullbobby
Obama boasted how his WH administration had no scandals.
(The State Dept under Hillary isn’t the WH, right? 😉
But now you have to ask… how did Joe get into this if Obama didn’t ok it?
Joe would have to go to Obama… otherwise how does he get on a plane to blackmail Ukraine into firing a prosecutor?
Lots of questions and the sheen of Obama is starting to fade.
Great piece, and it’s all true, but it’s a description of the modern Democratic party writ large. Though the Bidens are particularly vile/moronic, the Obamas, Pelosis, and Schiffs of the world are no better. And yet, we STILL have crusty old (and young, their progeny) hippy voters thinking Republicans or other non-dems are the plutocrats. The dems really did a number on people and society throughout the 20th century, particularly the latter half. JFK was an anomaly, not the rule. This is all the end result of the spread of internal rot, not the beginning.
Still: I never thought we’d end up with the full-blown fascism we see from the left and it’s minions today in this country. It’s nuts. Hypocrisy is not supposed to be a virtue.
C.X. Alexandre says that the VP has no power. Last I checked the VP presides over the Senate and casts the tie breaking vote in case of a TIE. That alone can be critical. Depending on the president, the VP can be assigned specific tasks for which he is responsible as well as having the presidents ear as a prime influencer. Also, those with long experience in the senate or house have the potential to aid in the passage of legislation, especially if the VP is in the capitol building every day. Few designated duties but potential for extreme influence, depending on the president. And of course, lastly he or she stands one heart beat from the presidency.
The Democrats proved this in 1944 when they needed FDR to win the election, even though he wished to not run. His health was dire and he was in congestive heart failure from a heart attack (Acute MI) suffered in early 1944 or late 1943. He could barely stay interested in or functional at staff meetings and did not even show up to the nominating convention. Hence the decision the drop Wallace and add Truman since no one had confidence FDR would survive the following year and Wallace was too radical for most of the party and voters.. Minimal pictures done of FDR in 1944 and early 1945 because he looked so awful.
You can sit on your ass as VP if you’re lazy but, with no other dedicated duties, that can free you to do a lot and you can define the job. Many ambitious people would jump at that possibility. I could think of a long list of projects I could get involved with no designated duties to constrain me except presiding over the senate. Depends on the person.
GEB, cogent analysis and excellent history rolled into one comment. Great job! Wallace was too radical, something that is currently impossible in today’s Democrat party, but Harris has something else that gives the party bosses pause…people hate her.
They have tried and tried to make Harris popular but she can’t even attain the status of palatable. To my older friends I ask how many of you remember the old joke about the dog food company spending millions on marketing, millions on product placement, millions on celebrity usage etc etc and yet nothing would budge the numbers The punchline is, “sometimes the dogs just don’t like the food”. Harris is the distasteful dog food that the party and the media is trying to sell to the country.
A somewhat lighthearted entry for a deadly serious issue.
Thank you professor for bringing the corruption to light.
Yes, they think the American voters are that dumb.
We are not.
UF,
Are you sure about that?
Fetterman
Newsom (after being recalled)
AOC
Hochul
Obama (Second term. Everything pointed to him losing)
Biden (well, I guess it was actually stolen)
Jim22,
Okay, you have a good point there.
I should rephrase that to us normal, sane, we can define what a woman is and that is a guy dressed up as a girl, American voters.
If the Republicans were smart….they would immediately begin an Impeachment Inquiry….and head off the appointment of a Special Priosecutor by the DOJ.
They should drag out every derogatory piece of information video, testimony, SARS Reports, Bank account information etc and make it all public reading without redactions.
The Facebook Emails and Twitter files on government censorship efforts should be up front showing how the media is in cahoots with the Biden/Democrat cabal.
The DOJ cannot be trusted to do the right thing as we know they are incapable of doing so.
This can only be won in the Court of Public Opinion…..and that is where the battle should be waged.
Collaterally Impeachments of the Secretary of State, Blinken, Climate Czar Kerry, AG Garland, Secretary of DHS Mayorkas, Secretary of the Transportation Buttigeg, and Secretary of Defense Austin should also be undertaken.
Lay out the incompetence and failure to comply with the duties and obligations of their Office and show the utter incompetence of their performance.
That is how we stick that wooden stake into the very heart of the monster the Democrats. have created under Biden.
I will bet you $500 that the GOP wait until a special prosecutor is appointed, then he/she will find nothing incriminating…pleasantries, talk about weather. No harm, no foul. Being a good dad. The GOP have no **lls and will not pursue this to the end. Betcha. Like Trey Gowdy, they’ll let the clock run out. Cowards and they are dirty too.
Or they will just wait and do nothing. If the Democrats had had information against Trump and his officials of the kind now available against Biden and his officials they would have launched an impeachment inquiry immediately, and they would have been right to do so. We are witnessing one of the greatest corruption scandals in US history and the Republicans do not use the full power they have to expose it and seek accountability. They need to stop talking and start doing.
Daniel,
What about timing and the up coming election? Say they are waiting till this time next year?
Ralph, will there be anyone left in DC once the derogatory information floodgates are opened? Not saying it would a be a bad thing. Just wondering if anyone left could honestly claim to be above the DC fray, yet still worthy.
The brand was insider peddling and Joe Biden was the object of that influence. The calls showed that he was always a phone call away to friends of his son.
Since their is no coverage of this, there are 100’s of data points, evidence, of the crimes.
One of those data points is a satellite phone Hunter gave to Joe. We all know dozens of people with satellite phones right? But if your selling access to Joe, an untraceable satellite phone number given to your Chinese check writers, would have some real time value.
Didn’t know about the sat phone. Why aren’t we hearing about it?
A new allegation against President Joe Biden claims that during the time he was vice president in the Obama administration, he used a satellite phone paid for by a business operated by Hunter Biden to communicate with his son.
https://www.westernjournal.com/joe-biden-kept-secret-satellite-phone-disturbing-connection-son-hunter-report/
The why its a secret, ask the media. Like I said, there are hundreds of these data points of evidence.
Have you seen what passes as media here??
Considering that VPs have little or no power, what exactly was the VP selling that the P didn’t know about? The story is hardly finished and then all hell will break loose when the Bigger guy is exposed.
It makes you wonder just what obama was doing during all of this. He certainly was aware of what biden was up to but did he just ignore it as business as usual or did he find joe a useful tool in a greater plan to destroy our constitution by means of corruption, collusion by our bureaucracy and treason in making us vulnerable to potential enemy states? I do think we should be turning our eyes to obama and valerie jarrett since it is quite clear what the 3 biden tools were up to.
Exactly, and will get there eventually
My comment about Clinton’s responsibility for the Rwandan Holocaust disappeared in no time. Why?
It is further down.
Thats the biggest question of all. What did Obama know and why was Biden picked. What did Biden bring to the table and why did his longtime influence peddling not disqualify from the office? And why did Obama then seek to not endorse him at all?
what exactly was the VP selling that the P didn’t know about?
First. Billions of $’s flow through the DC K street offices of lobbyists. So the false Claim that a person with power is needed, if bribes are in equation, is meaningless.
Second. What evidence to you have that excludes Obama from any of this?
Somehow, Obama has a Martha’s Vineyard Mansion, and Built a humble home on a Hawaii beach. Along with homes in DC and Chicago.
Never forget that Obam has completely skated on spying on the Republican running for President. Ordering and directing 4 agencies of the Federal Govt to take out political opposition.
Obama is the bigger guy
My God, Rep. Dan Goldman was a federal prosecutor? His remarks and actions cast a very dark shadow over anyone claiming to have such a history.
Dan Goldman is on the Biden’s Junior Varsity Shill Team. He has a long way to go, however.
He has a D in front of his name, nothing more need be said.
𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 ‘𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠’ 𝐇𝐢𝐦 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫
In a 2019 text message, Hunter Biden told his former best friend and business partner Devon Archer that his legal woes were “the price of being the most powerful group of people in the world.”
By: Debra Heine ~ July 31, 2023
https://amgreatness.com/2023/07/31/hunter-biden-told-indicted-pal-devon-archer-in-2019-that-the-people-questioning-him-have-no-power/
You know who else peddled influence and made a lot of money because of their proximity to Trump. Pretty much everyone around Trump. Guiliani. Bannon. Kushner. Dershowitz. Sure they brought their clients around to meet Trump. Some even sold or tried to sell pardons to their clients.
So we have been there before, and the Bidens are small potatoes compared to the last administration in terms of influence peddling.
At no time did the DOJ ever bring any influence peddling charges against the people you mention. And for obvious reasons. There wasn’t any.
Because influence peddling itself is not a crime. Turley only thinks it is when family members of Democrats do it.
No, it’s not a crime, at least not in and of itself.
For Biden, it may even help his reelection. I’m sure you’ll have a bumper sticker on your car that says
BIDEN 2024: COME FOR THE WORD SALAD, YOU’LL STAY FOR THE CORRUPTION.
The crime is not selling influence, any lobbyist does that, but dealing with and being, therefor compromised by our enemies is not the same thing. This is treason and that is a crime.
The cover-up and lies are what in the end what always brings the chickens home to roost. Nixon learned that one.
See 18 USC Sec 1346. It is indeed a crime but there needs to be some substantive “quo” for the “quid”. I bet that getting the prosecutor fired in Ukraine is plenty “quo”.
Wiseoldlawyer,
That is what I was thinking.
And we have it with Biden bragging about it on video.
Let the whataboutism begin!
I think this guy is just Dennis’s warm-up act.
PROPORTION
Bill turned his back on the Proxmire Act and 1 million black folks as they were slaughtered during his presidency. One million folks were savagely tortured and hacked to death because Clinton lied.
America is a Joke
Biden has drug the country down to his level: Joe Biden’s corrupt dicataorship. Biden’s Banana Republic.
I mean, look at the scum that is Joe Biden’s “family.” From his wife who insists on being called “Dr,” to the rest of the Total losers and scumbag criminals.
Joe Biden is a criminal. Lock him up where he belong!
Do you have ANY proof, (other than that fake hillary concoction) that Trump was ever compromised by anything that placed us at a disadvantage with our enemies. We all know that politicians make money in the swamp but cozie collusion with potential enemies is not only grifting but it is treason to the nation – an act that should bar him from any public office and censure him. He should have a big black mark next to his name as a traitor to the nation.
Polly: Well then, I guess we should not pursue Biden. But, then we should let Trump off the hook too. You OK with that? I thought not.
The DOJ is proving Trumps Case, with the 4 employees that the DOJ has under investigation, It proves that Mar-A-Lago was a Secure Facility and the Documents were Securely in a Secure Facility. All Documents are accounted for and the Security is Accounted for. The DOJ FBI, and Archive have possession of these items.
The Mens Rea of the FBI, DOJ, Democratic Party and Everyone involved in ‘Frame Trump’, has their Guilt weeping out of every pour of their Body.
Were the Houses of President Biden so adequately secure? Would they even qualify as a “Facility”. Are any of the former; Presidents, Vice Presidents, Sec. of State, Generals, Diplomats, … et.al “Secured” as well as Trump? Show Me.
Mar-A-Logo is a Fort Knox – The Deep State Dem powers are covering their ass for being completely over their head in espionage and blackmail in Framing Trump. And -yes- once again They are over doing it.
All this, So they can have Their Dirty World. -Evil-
And now the Rush is on the Horizon. In 30 days the starting-gun will launch the Campaign Rush to clear the field down to Two Candidates, Democrat vs Republican. The DNC has already stated that it is forgoing any Presidential Candidate Debates.
IMO, The DNC will pull a Last minute bait-n-switch in a flood of distraction and rush Their Candidate into Office with that same shenanigans and debauchery as in 2020. The Bottom Line is that the Presidential Contest is rigged. How it manifest itself this time around and who will be involved – Who Knows – but I can guarantee you this, it will be Evil.
Is “Law and Order” supposed to be a defense against Evil?
Then why is “Law and Order” (DOJ, FBI, DHS, …) working as the Agent of Evil?
“Law and Order” has become an Industry of Compromising People’s Integrity.
-YES- It just plain WRONG in the face. “I know it when I see it”
This is an extremely perverse way of controlling the Masses … Hillary (& Deep Co.)
You are the Devil Incarnate 👿
She ‘instigated’ the whole chain of events by trowing the Monkey Wench into the Machine from Her position in the Obama Administration and ruining the everything down THE LINE: The FBI DOJ DHS …. all the forces of Her Evil 👿 Vengeance to “GET TRUMP”. Her divisive rage has broken the Constitution and Spirt of the Nation, on a Global proportion.
And now, the Who? Me? moment. Yes Hillary, YOU.
Hillary -“Don’t Look at Her”- She’s a real living Medusa – Pure Evil! and She’ll be Back again.
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The offer still stands: Put Hillary Clinton away for 50 years without Parole, and the rest of the Accomplices (All including Bill & Barack – They Knew it) will get Amnesty, should They come Clean of it.